Man shot to death on Seaside street

A 20-year-old man was shot and killed late Friday in Seaside about two hours after police responded to another shooting in a separate location — the same Coe Avenue address where a shootout occurred six days earlier.

Seaside police have not released the name of the man who was found dead in the 1600 block of San Lucas Street shortly before midnight, but say he is a known gang member.

He was pronounced dead at the scene by police and Monterey County Sheriff's deputies, who responded to calls reporting shots fired in the area of San Lucas and Olympia Avenue.

Two hours earlier, just before 10 p.m., police were dispatched to the 5100 block of Coe Avenue. Police said shots were fired from a passing vehicle at several men who were standing outside the same house where two teenagers were wounded the previous Saturday. No one was wounded in Friday's shooting, but stray bullets struck the residence.

Police Cmdr. Chris Veloz said Saturday that no connection has been made between the San Lucas Street homicide and the Coe Avenue shootings.

Police Chief Vicki Myers held a press conference Friday to announce the arrest of a 17-year-old boy who was wounded in the Oct. 6 shooting and may be linked to some of the city's 17 previous shootings this year.

Police said the 17-year-old is suspected of shooting at the occupants of the Coe Avenue house, hitting one 19-year-old man in the leg. Investigators were told that relatives of the man returned fire "in self-defense" at the suspected assailant, who sustained multiple non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.

Myers said the youth will be charged with four counts of attempted murder, gang charges and violation of probation.

Anyone with information about any of these incidents is encouraged to call the Seaside Police Department at 899-6748 or the Anonymous Tip-Line at 899-6282.